Posts by Ellie Duncan
Europeans lag UK consumers in ‘embracing’ digital banking
New research by CRIF found that 53% of Europeans still prefer to apply for new financial products in-person at a local bank branch.
Read MoreQ&A: Raidiam’s Ralph Bragg on creating an Open Banking ‘ecosystem-in-a-box’
Ralph Bragg, co-founder of Raidiam, explains how its technology helped the UK deliver secure Open Banking transactions and how it played a fundamental role in enabling Brazil to realise its “Open Data dream”.
Read MoreJP Morgan boosts payments capabilities with Renovite deal
The investment bank’s acquisition of cloud-native payments fintech Renovite is part of its plans to “develop the next-generation payments processing platform globally”.
Read MoreInvestment in Canadian fintech declines amid lower tech valuations
According to KPMG in Canada, there was $810 million in total investment across 85 deals in the first half of 2022.
Read MoreSwoop Funding chooses ForwardAI to improve SMBs’ access to loans
ForwardAI’s ‘Precise API’ will give Swoop access to historical, real time and predictive data to help assess a business’ viability.
Read MoreClearBank names new chief revenue officer
Andrew Barker has been appointed by ClearBank as prepares to expand across Europe initially, and then internationally.
Read MoreRegtech SteelEye secures $21m in Series B funding for US expansion
US demand for regtech solutions “at all-time high”, according to SteelEye’s Americas president Brian Lynch.
Read MoreFintech PEXA completes UK’s first digitised remortgage transaction
The transaction was undertaken by Hinckley & Rugby Building Society and law firm Muve using PEXA Pay, and suggests that same-day remortgaging in the UK could be made possible.
Read MoreYapily partners with Pleo to alleviate UK businesses’ cash flow issues
Open Banking top-ups for Pleo customers will be rolled out across Europe, starting with the Netherlands and France.
Read MoreLess than 50% of US banks using customer data for personalisation
‘The State of Digital Banking 2022’ report also reveals financial institutions recognise the importance of fintech partnerships for growth but are not quick to add new ones.
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